Can Beyonce score this week’s Number 1 album?

Beyonce goes head-to-head with Ellie Goulding in the race to this week’s Official Number 1 album… And it’s going to be a close one!
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Beyonce goes head-to-head with Ellie Goulding in the race to this week’s Official Number 1 album… And it’s going to be a close one!

Ellie Goulding faces tough competition from Beyonce if she wants to hold on to her Official Albums Chart crown this weekend.

Ellie’s second studio album, Halcyon, and Beyonce’s new self-titled album, are neck-and-neck in the race to this week’s Number 1, with just under 700 copies currently separating the pair on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Ellie scored her second UK Number 1 album on Sunday after 65 weeks in the Top 75. To date, it has sold nearly 665,000 copies. Meanwhile, Beyonce released her surprise fifth studio album without any prior announcement just over four weeks ago. It has sold nearly 232,000 copies in the UK so far, and has never left the Top 5.

Be sure to tune in to BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show with Jameela Jamil and Dan And Phil this Sunday (January 12) from 6pm to see who comes out on top. The full Official Albums Chart Top 100 will be published, here, at 7pm that evening.

Gary Barlow slides one place to Number 3 today with Since I Saw You Last. John Newman climbs one place to Number 4 with his debut album, Tribute, and Bastille are up one place to Number 5 with Bad Blood.

New Entries

There is only one new entry on this week’s Update - US rapper Kid Ink is on course to make his Official Albums Chart debut on Sunday with his second full-length, My Own Lane. The album is new in at Number 30 today.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Albums Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

1 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
2 BEYONCE BEYONCE
3 SINCE I SAW YOU LAST GARY BARLOW
4 TRIBUTE JOHN NEWMAN
5 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
6 HOME RUDIMENTAL
7 TRUE AVICII
8 SWINGS BOTH WAYS ROBBIE WILLIAMS
9 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
10 DAYS ARE GONE HAIM
11 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR
12 MIDNIGHT MEMORIES ONE DIRECTION
13 LONG WAY DOWN TOM ODELL
14 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
15 PURE HEROINE LORDE
16 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 EMINEM
17 THE 1975 1975
18 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
19 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
20 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
21 DIRECT HITS KILLERS
22 MECHANICAL BULL KINGS OF LEON
23 THE LUMINEERS LUMINEERS
24 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DAFT PUNK
25 TO BE LOVED MICHAEL BUBLE
26 ARTPOP LADY GAGA
27 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS
28 JAMES ARTHUR JAMES ARTHUR
29 MOON LANDING JAMES BLUNT
30 MY OWN LANE KID INK
31 SALUTE LITTLE MIX
32 SHANGRI LA JAKE BUGG
33 TIME ROD STEWART
34 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS
35 BANGERZ MILEY CYRUS
36 IN A PERFECT WORLD KODALINE
37 SETTLE DISCLOSURE
38 JAKE BUGG JAKE BUGG
39 DEMONSTRATION TINIE TEMPAH
40 PRISM KATY PERRY

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